Organisation profile
The institute consists of two departments: philosophy and art history.
Main research areas
Since the winter semester 2016/17, the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences has established a DFG Research Training Group, "Cultures of Critique. Forms, Media, Effects", in which the IPK is significantly involved (speaker: Prof. Dr. Beate Söntgen).
The Institute is also represented at the Leuphana Institute of Advanced Studies for Culture and Society (co-director: Prof. Dr. Susanne Leeb) and is significantly involved in the Center for Critical Studies (speaker: Dr. Ben Trott).
With the Lichtenberg Professorship (Prof. Dr. Lynn Rother), funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, Leuphana University has the first permanent full professorship dedicated entirely to questions of provenance research, looted art, and restitution.
The Kunstraum, which is connected to the Institute of Philosophy and Art History, offers a close practical connection to contemporary art and its actors.
- 2025
Textile Ecologies Konferenz
Houghteling, S. (Organiser) & Schulz, V.-S. (Organiser)
05.02.2025 → 07.02.2025Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Leaving Art History? Contemporary Art and Material Practices
Leeb, S. (Speaker) & Eduardo Dávila, S. (Speaker)
10.01.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
- 2024
Small Formation: Lines and Alternating Knots as Logistic Inversions
Neugärtner, S. (Speaker)
02.12.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Research Presentation from PhD Project "Materiality in Art Practices from Postwar Guatemala: Bodies, Soil, Meat, Cosmos"
Eduardo Dávila, S. (Speaker)
21.11.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
PEAR - Provenance Event and Archives Reconciliation
Rother, L. (Speaker), Mariani, F. (Speaker) & van Ginhoven, S. (Speaker)
14.11.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Podiumsdiskussion: Über den Schmerz der Anderen - Postkolonialismus und multidirektionale Erinnerung.
Kück, T. (Moderator) & Leeb, S. (Speaker)
13.11.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
The Conjuncture of 'Cancel Culture': Relations of Gender and Sexuality in Times of Crisis
Trott, B. (Speaker)
06.11.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Internationale Perspektiven an der Schnittstelle von Provenienzforschung, Data Science und Vermittlung
Rother, L. (Speaker)
05.11.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Webtalk Reihe: Kulturerbe und Gerechtigkeit: Die Herausforderung der Restitution
Rother, L. (Speaker), Assmann, A. (Speaker) & Lupfer, G. (Speaker)
05.11.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Generalized Between Icon, Symbol and Index: The Physical Dimension in Isotype and Unicode
Neugärtner, S. (Speaker)
11.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The Conjuncture of "Cancel Culture": Gender, Sexuality and "Free Speech" Conflicts Today
Trott, B. (Speaker)
17.10.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Provenienza e Intelligenza Artificiale (Provenance and Artificial Intelligence)
Mariani, F. (Speaker)
11.10.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
'THREADS ARE VEINS' – On Magdalena Abakanowicz
Kipke, A. (Speaker)
10.10.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
International Conference Dedicated to the Centenary of the H2SO4
Ruhkopf, M. (Moderator), Tchelidze, K. (Organiser), Kipke, A. (Speaker) & Volz, J. (Speaker)
09.10.2024 → 31.10.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Toward Interconnected Object Histories: Challenges and Opportunities in the Creation of Provenance Linked Open Data
Mariani, F. (Speaker), Rother, L. (Speaker) & Koss, M. (Speaker)
09.10.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
VISU: Vagueness, Incompleteness, Subjectivity, and Uncertainty in Provenance Language Processing and Linked Open Data Modelling
Mariani, F. (Speaker)
03.09.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Education
University of Basel
Trott, B. (Visiting researcher)
01.09.2024 → 31.12.2024Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Research
Riss, Trauma, Heilung - Therapeutische Konstellationen um Emma Kunz
Kipke, A. (Speaker)
28.06.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Memories of Paper: The Digital History of Pan
Koss, M. (Speaker)
26.06.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Duke University - Leuphana University Gender, Queer and Transgender Studies workshop for doctoral candidates
Trott, B. (Organiser) & Rosenberg, G. (Organiser)
25.06.2024 → 29.06.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › artistic events › Research
The Practice of Decolonization
Leeb, S. (Organiser), Drayton, R. (Organiser) & Morris, R. C. (Organiser)
11.06.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Beyond Jefferson's Futures.
Leeb, S. (Chair)
08.06.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Education
Emma Kunz: Drawing as a tool, Healing as a process
Kipke, A. (Speaker)
07.06.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Expansive Museality: Camila Caris Seguel in Conversation with Sebastián Eduardo Dávila on Museo del Mundo and the Garífuna Nation
Eduardo Dávila, S. (Speaker) & Caris Seguel, C. (Speaker)
05.06.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Subjekte der ökologischen Verwüstung
Stubenrauch, H. (Organiser)
16.05.2024 → 17.05.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Tracing the Unknown: Learning from Provenance Data
Rother, L. (Organiser) & Mariani, F. (Organiser)
15.05.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
5th Transregional Academy on Latin American Art 2024
Eduardo Dávila, S. (Participant)
04.05.2024 → 12.05.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Provenance of Provenance: Provenance LOD as Nanopublications
Mariani, F. (Speaker)
23.04.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Therapeutische Verfahren in künstlerisch-intervenierenden Praktiken
Kipke, A. (Speaker) & Woisnitza, M. (Speaker)
23.04.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Dancing in Connewitz – Transformation und Transfer in der Lehre ostdeutscher Fotografie
Neugärtner, S. (Speaker) & Klotzek, W. (Speaker)
20.04.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Provenance Language Processing: A Human-in-the-Loop Perspective
Mariani, F. (Speaker)
09.04.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Emma Kunz, Eva Aeppli – A Closer Look at the Visionary
Kipke, A. (Speaker)
22.03.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Duke University - Leuphana University Gender, Queer and Transgender Studies workshop for doctoral candidates
Trott, B. (Organiser) & Rosenberg, G. (Organiser)
19.03.2024 → 23.03.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Von der Renaissance-Perspektive zur Axonometrie: Textile Raumkonzeptionen
Neugärtner, S. (Speaker)
15.03.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
112th Annual Conference of the College Art Association of America - CAA 2024
Koss, M. (Chair) & Rother, L. (Chair)
16.02.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Tennis Moments in Theory, Writing, and Art.
Kipke, A. (Speaker)
09.02.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
From Text to Data: AI and Human Expertise in Provenance Linked Open Data
Mariani, F. (Speaker), Rother, L. (Speaker) & Koss, M. (Speaker)
08.02.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Quantity, Quality, Trust: Dilemmas and Strategies of Museum Documentation in the Age of AI
Rother, L. (Speaker), Mariani, F. (Speaker) & Koss, M. (Speaker)
17.01.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Towards Wikidata: How to Transform Provenance with AI
Mariani, F. (Speaker) & Rother, L. (Speaker)
13.01.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Associazione Italiana Walter Benjamin (Publisher)
Costa, M. T. (Editorial Board)
2024Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of journals › Research
- 2023
Material Performance - by Olympia Bukkakis with Dagat Mera
Trott, B. (Organiser)
20.12.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › artistic events › Transfer
The Work of Drag - with Olympia Bukkakis
Trott, B. (Organiser)
20.12.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
La scénografie des "Immatériaux"
Broeckmann, A. (Speaker)
18.12.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Podiumsdiskussion: Vom Unrechtskontext zur Kooperation? Über den Umgang mit dem kolonialen Erbe.
Kück, T. (Moderator), Leeb, S. (Participant) & Kindata, D. (Participant)
06.12.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Vom Unrechtskontext zur Kooperation? Über den Umgang mit dem kolonialen Erbe
Leeb, S. (Panel participant)
06.12.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Widerständigkeit der Immaterialien. Inszenierung und Eigensinn der Exponate in "Les Immatériaux" (Paris, 1985)
Broeckmann, A. (Speaker)
01.12.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
'Branches of an Imaginary Marimba'. The Force of Syncretism in Contemporary Art
Eduardo, S. (Speaker)
22.11.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Abstraktion in Bewegung – Überwindung des Gegenständlichen in der Zeit. Der abstrakte Film der deutschen Filmavantgarde
Neugärtner, S. (Speaker)
18.11.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The Digital Image Research Program
Leeb, S. (Speaker)
16.11.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The Digital Revolution as Counter Revolution
Leeb, S. (Organiser) & Simon, J. (Speaker)
16.11.2023 → 17.11.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Syncretism in the study of contemporary art from the Americas
Eduardo, S. (Speaker)
15.11.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Animals in Capitalist Societies: Conceptualizing the Anthropological Form
Stefanoni, C. (Speaker) & Aloe, F. (Speaker)
10.11.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Una proposta forte per un pensiero debole
Nigro, R. (Speaker)
02.11.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
(Not) in Demand: The Berlin Museums and their Acquisitions from the Dresdner Bank 1935
Rother, L. (Speaker)
01.11.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Zoopolitics of Life and Death
Stefanoni, C. (Organiser) & Timeto, F. (Organiser)
17.10.2023 → 18.10.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
A Queer Case for the Basic Income at Our Current Conjuncture: Political Philosophy, Individual Rights and De-Individualisation
Trott, B. (Keynote Speaker)
10.10.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The Grey Role of Animal (Dis)enhancement in Antispeciesism
Stefanoni, C. (Speaker)
09.10.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Naive Kunst, Primitivismus und Gegen-Primitvismus
Tchelidze, K. (Speaker)
01.10.2023 → 31.03.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Artificial Intelligence, Human Expertise: the Case of Provenance Linked Open Data
Mariani, F. (Speaker), Rother, L. (Speaker) & Koss, M. (Speaker)
25.09.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The Place of Les Immatériaux in the Exhibition History of Media Art, Science and Technology
Broeckmann, A. (Speaker)
13.09.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Crisis, Conflict, Queer Studies
Trott, B. (Organiser), Laufenberg, M. (Organiser) & Trott, B. (Speaker)
11.09.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Toward a Materialist Critique of Violence: Challenging “Slaughterhouses with Glass Walls” Discourses in Animal Ethics
Stefanoni, C. (Speaker)
11.09.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Linking (In)Completeness: A Collaborative Approach to Representing People in Art Provenance Data
Rother, L. (Speaker), Mariani, F. (Speaker) & Koss, M. (Speaker)
14.07.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Care und Caring als integraler Bestandteil der künstlerischen Praxis in der Frauensiedlung Loheland
Neugärtner, S. (Speaker)
09.07.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Le Théâtre du Non-Corps. En conversation avec Jean-Claude Fall.
Broeckmann, A. (Speaker)
08.07.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Drafts in Action. Concepts and Practices of Artistic Intervention
Woisnitza, M. (Organiser), Kipke, A. (Organiser), Kovalenko, I. (Organiser), Rogalski, L. (Organiser), Teune, S. (Organiser), Söntgen, B. (Organiser), Werberger, A. (Organiser), Lalu, P. (Speaker), Mader, R. (Speaker), Jones, A. (Keynote speaker), Moussienko, N. (Speaker), Rosa, M. L. (Speaker), Schäfer, F. (Speaker), Schulte-Fischedick, V. (Speaker), Rayyan, A. (Speaker), Serafini, P. (Speaker) & Jakubowska, A. (Speaker)
07.07.2023 → 08.07.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
art thinking doing art: Artistic Practices in Educational Contexts from 1900 to Today
Neugärtner, S. (Organiser), Weingart, B. (Speaker), Brus, A. (Moderator), Buchloh, B. (Keynote speaker) & Holert, T. (Keynote speaker)
23.06.2023 → 24.06.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Hegel and Haiti: Critique of Enlightenment Philosophy beyond Apologia and Condemnation
Mattutat, L. (Organiser) & Leeb, S. (Organiser)
22.06.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Revisiting Les Immatériaux
Broeckmann, A. (Organiser) & Lista, M. (Organiser)
09.06.2023 → 10.06.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
The Place of Les Immatériaux in the Histories of Exhibitions
Broeckmann, A. (Speaker)
09.06.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Die Ausstellung „Les Immatériaux“ (Paris, 1985) als Station künstlerischer Forschung
Broeckmann, A. (Speaker)
06.06.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Actual Time of Arrival: The Acquisition of Expressionist Art by United States Museums
Koss, M. (Speaker) & Mariani, F. (Speaker)
03.06.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Haunting the Nation State. Colonial Gothic in Contemporary Art
Leeb, S. (Speaker)
31.05.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Combing Wind, Adorning Water. Afro-Indigenous Approximations in the Art Practices of Edgar Calel and Sandra Monterroso
Eduardo, S. (Speaker)
25.05.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
« Les Immatériaux, pourquoi ? »
Broeckmann, A. (Speaker)
25.05.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Touching Land. Creative Practices for Planetary Be/Longings
Eduardo, S. (Speaker) & Marivi, V. (Speaker)
25.05.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Unlocking Collection Histories: Provenance Data and Agency
Rother, L. (Speaker), Mariani, F. (Speaker) & Koss, M. (Speaker)
18.05.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Maintenance (Art-)Work and the Production of Presence
Kuhn, E. (Speaker)
10.05.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Unlimited Fantasies: Social Psychology in Postfordist Society
Stubenrauch, H. (Speaker)
08.05.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The Challenges of Xibalbá. Contemporary Art Practices between Chixot (Guatemala) and the Underworld of Art
Eduardo, S. (Speaker)
28.04.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Offene Beziehungen
Woisnitza, M. (Speaker)
27.04.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
Lena Meyer-Bergner’s Commitment to Social Change through the Material Transformation of Everyday Life
Neugärtner, S. (Speaker)
13.04.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Einführung in die Kunstwissenschaft als Kulturwissenschaft
Tchelidze, K. (Speaker)
01.04.2023 → 30.09.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Theorien und Methoden feministischer Kunstwissenschaft SoSe 2023
Tchelidze, K. (Speaker)
01.04.2023 → 30.09.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
"L'eredità nietzschiana nell'operaismo italiano
Nigro, R. (Speaker)
23.03.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Methodology of researching historical exhibitions
Broeckmann, A. (Organiser) & Nolasco-Rozsas, L. (Organiser)
16.03.2023 → 17.03.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Researching Historical Exhibitions. The Example of Les Immatériaux
Broeckmann, A. (Speaker)
16.03.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Offene Beziehungen
Woisnitza, M. (Speaker)
10.03.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
Variational pragmatics goes German: Developments, trends and challenges
Barron, A. (Keynote Speaker)
07.03.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Unbegrenzte Phantasien: Triebstruktur und neoliberale Gesellschaft
Stubenrauch, H. (Speaker)
03.03.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The Exhibition Les Immatériaux (Paris, 1985)
Broeckmann, A. (Speaker)
27.02.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Interdisciplinarity in curatorial networks
Broeckmann, A. (Organiser) & Nolasco-Rozsas, L. (Organiser)
23.02.2023 → 24.02.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
The curatorial network of Les Immatériaux
Broeckmann, A. (Speaker)
23.02.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Interpreting Strings, Weaving Threads – Structuring Provenance Data with AI
Rother, L. (Speaker), Mariani, F. (Speaker) & Koss, M. (Speaker)
17.02.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Introducing Mrs. John Doe: Towards Feminist Agency in Provenance Data
Rother, L. (Speaker), Mariani, F. (Speaker) & Koss, M. (Speaker)
17.02.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
111th Annual Conference of the College Art Association of America - CAA 2023
Koss, M. (Chair)
16.02.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies Roundtable Discussion
Barron, A. (Organiser) & Amador-Moreno, C. P. (Organiser)
15.02.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Irish and Irish English linguistics: interfaces and synergies
Barron, A. (Panel participant)
15.02.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The Wages for Housework Campaign. What Yesterday's Struggles Mean for Today
Mattutat, L. (Organiser), Trott, B. (Organiser) & Federici, S. (Keynote speaker)
31.01.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Critique Now
Mattutat, L. (Organiser) & Söntgen, B. (Organiser)
12.01.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer